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     habits and adopting the usages of civilized life. His treaties were confirmed, and 
     
     his policy adopted by the Government, with the most benign results. At the end 
     
     of his term of office, he was sent delegate to Congress from the Territory. When 
     
     Congress adjourned, Governor Stevens proceeded to Washington Territory. On 
     
     the fall of Fort Sumter he offered carte—Mambe to the Government, came in 
     
     person as soon as possible, accepted the colonelcy of the Seventy—ninth High— 
     
     landers, New York Volunteers, and steadily devoted himself to the duties of the 
     
     field. In September, 1861, in command of a force of eighteen hundred men, he 
     
     made the reconnoissance of Lewinsville. September 29th, he was made a brig— 
     
     adier—general. In Oétober, he was ordered on the expedition against the coasts of 
     
     Carolina, Georgia and Florida. On the first day of January, 1862, he attacked, 
     
     and, with the aid of gun—boats, carried the enemy's batteries in the Coosaw, and, 
     
     in command at Beaufort, he held possession of the site until ordered to the 
     
     Stono in June. Placed then in command of a division, he landed on James Is— 
     
     land, forming the right wing of the army under General Benham, and, whilst his 
     
     force was landing, drove in the advance of the enemy, capturing a battery of five 
     
     guns, and establishing his permanent picket—line. In July, General Stevens with 
     
     his division was ordered to Virginia, and reported to General Burnside. The fol— 
     
     lowing month he was ordered to Fredericksburg, and thence marched up the Rap— 
     
     pahannock, and joined Pope’s army at Culpepper Court House. At the second 
     
     battle of Bull Run, he was almost incessantly engaged for two days ; his troops 
     
     suffered terribly, and his own horse was shot dead beneath him. Among the last 
     
     to leave the field, he was placed in charge of the rear the day after the battle, with 
     
     a force of two divisions of infantry, a brigade of cavalry, and several batteries of 
     
     artillery. On the following day, September 1st, 1862, General Stevens, in con— 
     
     junction with the Second Division (Ninth Corps),was sent to arrest the advance of 
     
     a force of the enemy, threatening the road to Washington, by which the army 
     
     was retiring. This force, consisting of Stonewall Jackson’s troops, was advancing 
     
     with great resolution and rapidity, and was already within sight of the road when 
     
     met by General Stevens. Forming his division into a column of brigades with 
     
     the greatest rapidity, he charged the enemy with bayonet, knowing full well that 
     
     the safety of the army depended in their repulse. The enemy, meantime, had 
     
     taken position behind a fence on the edge of a wood, and opened a deadly volley 
     
     upon our advancing troops. General Stevens, seeing the head of the column 
     
     waver and hold back, rushed forward, seized the colors of the seventy—ninth High- 
     
     landers from the hands of the wounded color—bearer, and calling on his troops to 
     
     follow him, led them to a resistless charge which swept back the enemy like chaff 
     
     and gained the position—a position dearly bought, for, in the very moment of 
     
     success, he fell pierced through the brain by a rebel bullet. In recognition of his 
     
    
   
   
    
     services during the civil war, General Stevens was made a major—general, to date 
     
     from July, 1862.‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     1 Condensed from Memoirs of Rhode Island Officers. 
     
     CHILDREN